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baby fever

baby fever noun: an urgent desire to have a baby or grandchild.

Noun

baby fever (uncountable)

  1. (derogatory, humorous, slang) An urgent desire to have a baby or grandchild.
    • Then a man passed by with his child on his shoulders. This time last year I had baby fever so bad, it was ridiculous.2003, Eric Jerome Dickey, Naughty or Nice, New American Library, published 2004, →ISBN, page 75
    • I was living in Baltimore, teaching art and sleeping with an artist when, out of nowhere, I was swept away in a tide of baby fever.2011, Kim Wright, Love in Mid Air, Grand Central Publishing, →ISBN
    Synonyms:
    baby rabies

Synonyms of baby fever

Questions about baby fever

What does baby fever mean?
Baby fever means an urgent desire to have a baby or grandchild.
What part of speech is baby fever?
Baby fever is a noun.

Words near baby fever in the dictionary

  1. baby farming
  2. baby farms
  3. baby fat
  4. baby father
  5. baby fathers
  6. baby fever
  7. baby finger
  8. baby fingers
  9. baby food
  10. baby foods
  11. baby formula

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